The Island

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2006)

The Island
From the director of The Rock, Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor. Michael Bay likes to make action movies. And he is quiet good in it. The Island is in comparison with most of his other movies more a quiet starter, building up to an action climax at the end. All together not a really fantastic film but it still touches a few warm topics of today, like cloning. Lincoln Six Echo(Ewan Mc Gregor) is living in a city along with other people, it's all inside because they are been told there is some kind of pollution outside and the ones in the complex are the lucky ones, the survivors of a world disaster. In fact are all of these people insurance policies from rich people outside who can use this clones to repair their own body. All of the clones are made in a few years to be an equal of the other living counterpart. They brainwash the clones so they cannot think of other things than mentioned in the brainwash, sex is something they don't know. Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) is a product that has difficulties, what means he starts to raise questions, to many questions. He is actually a production error. He meats a girl, Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) and together they try to find out the truth of the lottery. The lottery is made to let the people of the complex dream of a future on a one-solitary island where they can go and which is not polluted. In reality they are used at that moment to fix the original buyer of the clones. Quiet an original film with an easy start building up to a full blow action movie at the end, what not really fits in this type of movie. Another chance blown for Michael Bay to make a really good movie, above average.